Yoav Gallant

October 17, 2024 11:22 PM

Hamas leader Sinwar is dead, Israel says

Israeli ministers have been informed that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has very likely been killed by Israeli troops who were conducting an operation in southern Gaza, two officials with knowledge of the situation said. Israeli broadcasters quoted unnamed officials as saying Sinwar, the architect of the devastating attack on Israel last October that set off the Gaza war, was dead. There was no immediate confirmation from the military, which earlier said it was checking the possibility that Sinwar...

September 22, 2024 2:57 AM

Israel’s strike on Beirut killed 37, Lebanon says

Rescuers in Beirut hunted on Saturday for people still missing in rubble after an Israeli airstrike targeting Hezbollah commanders the previous day killed at least 37 people in a suburb of the Lebanese capital, according to authorities. Hezbollah, a powerful Iran-backed group, said that 16 members including senior leader Ibrahim Aqil and another commander, Ahmed Wahbi, were among those killed in the deadliest strike in nearly a year of conflict with Israel. Israel's army said it hit an undergr...

June 3, 2024 11:56 AM

Biden’s Gaza plan ‘not a good deal’ but Israel accepts it, says PM Netanyahu aide

An aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed on Sunday that Israel had accepted a framework deal for winding down the Gaza war now being advanced by U.S. President Joe Biden, though he described it as flawed and in need of much more work. In an interview with Britain's Sunday Times, Ophir Falk, chief foreign policy advisor to Netanyahu, said Biden's proposal was "a deal we agreed to — it's not a good deal but we dearly want the hostages released, all of them". "There are a lot of d...

May 30, 2024 4:33 PM

Israeli Defence Minister Gallant lists Hezbollah terror commanders killed by Israeli forces

Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has delivered a stern warning to Hezbollah, listing senior terrorist commanders recently eliminated by Israeli forces while accusing the Lebanese militant group's chief Hassan Nasrallah of dragging the country into a "difficult reality." During an operational assessment at the Israeli military's Northern Command on Wednesday, Gallant presented images of slain Hezbollah brigade leaders and claimed over 300 terrorists and commanders from the Iran-backed grou...